{"product_id":"mean-lives-mean-laws-oklahomas-women-prisoners-paperback-softback-9780813562759","title":"Mean Lives, Mean Laws; Oklahoma's Women Prisoners (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813562759","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMean Lives, Mean Laws\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOklahoma's Women Prisoners\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan F. Sharp (Author), Juanita Ortiz (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813562759\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 September 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e210 pages, 2 figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Sharp is a leading expert on women in prison and she continues her record of outstanding scholarship with this work. \u003ci\u003eMean Lives, Mean Laws\u003c\/i\u003e will make a much needed contribution to policy studies of criminology and criminal justice.\" \u003c\/div\u003e - Barbara Owen (author of In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison) \u003cdiv\u003e\"No one is better poised to write a scholarly book on incarcerated women and no state is more appropriate to study than Oklahoma. \u003ci\u003eMean Lives, Mean Laws\u003c\/i\u003e is historically, theoretically, and methodologically remarkable. But even more importantly, the self-reported rates and words of real incarcerated women about their harsh lives before, in, after, and sometimes upon re-entry to prison are powerful testimonies to how the U.S. system is fundamentally flawed in responding to women and girls as victims and offenders.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Joanne Belknap (author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Sharp truly cares about incarcerated women and has devoted her life to convincing state bureaucrats to reform the ways they are treated in Oklahoma, possibly the most conservative state in the union and definitely the one with the highest rate of female incarceration.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Women's Review of Books)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the country, nearly twice the national average. In this compelling new book, sociologist Susan Sharp sets out to discover just what has gone so wrong in the state of Oklahoma-and what that might tell us about trends in female incarceration nationwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe culmination of over a decade of original research, \u003ci\u003eMean Lives, Mean Laws\u003c\/i\u003e exposes a Kafkaesque criminal justice system, one that has no problem with treating women as collateral damage in the War on Drugs or with stripping female prisoners of their parental rights. Yet it also reveals the individual histories of women who were jailed in Oklahoma, providing intimate portraits of their lives before, during, and after their imprisonment. We witness the impoverished and abusive conditions in which many of these women were raised; we get a vivid portrait of their everyday lives behind bars; and we glimpse the struggles that lead many ex-convicts to fall back into the penal system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an innovative methodology that combines statistical rigor with extensive personal interviews, Sharp shows how female incarceration affects not only individuals, but also families and communities. Putting a human face on a growing social problem, \u003ci\u003eMean Lives, Mean Laws\u003c\/i\u003e raises important questions about both the state of Oklahoma and the state of the nation. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e1 Mean Lives: A Theoretical Framework \u003cbr\u003e2 Mean Laws: The Rise in Female Imprisonment \u003cbr\u003e3 Mean Women or Mean Lives? Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Abuse of Women Prisoners \u003cbr\u003e4 The Prison Experience \u003cbr\u003e5 Going Back Again by Juanita Ortiz\u003cbr\u003e6 Coming Home and Staying Out \u003cbr\u003e7 The Children and Their Caregivers \u003cbr\u003e8 Winds of Change \u003cbr\u003e9 Lessons Learned and Moving Forward \u003cbr\u003eAppendix A Research Methods \u003cbr\u003eAppendix B Oklahoma Children of Incarcerated Parents \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559334998296,"sku":"9780813562759","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mean-lives-mean-laws-oklahomas-women-prisoners-paperback-softback-9780813562759","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}